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GA-X58A-UD3R rev. 2.0 Cold Boot Issues

Hi,

I have a self built PC based around the GA-X58A-UD3R rev. 2.0 board. I'm experiencing ongoing cold boot issues where each morning it will take up to 8 reboots to get windows 7 Ultimate to load. Once loaded its then as solid as a rock for the rest of the day - if I leave the system on its fine (I can reboot and it loads a-ok) but if I turn it off and go to a meeting for longer than an hour or two then the cold boot issue resurfaces.

I receive a number of error messages relating to:

ntdll.dll
various memory isses
various stop codes starting 0x...

Going through windows start up recovery once it finally loads without errors then means the system will reboot and load windows correctly on the next attempt. This process takes 10 to 15minutes to go from first powering up to actually being able to use the system.

I've run a mem test on the RAM both as a group and then each of the six stick individually. These tests ran for over 3 hours per memtest and reported zero errors. I take this as indicating the RAM is a-ok.

BIOS reports the RAM in full correctly and windows does too.

Here are my System/Bios specs -I'm currently using the XMP Profile1 as recommended in the motherboard manual.

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R rev. 2.0 Cold Boot Issues

Many thanks to you both :D

Looks like thats fixed it. I upgraded the BIOS to FH5 and also set up the BIOS settings as Wazza stated and we've got a first time boot this morning from the system. Hopefully that should be the problem fixed.

I'll keep the thread open for a few days and report back each day on the result of the cold boot so we can be certain its all fixed.

Things have changed a lot BIOS/RAM wise in the 5ish years since my last build obviously - It all used to be plug and play back when I was building a system every couple of months for family or friends the hardest part always used to be crossing your fingers that the system would POST on the first power up! ;)

Re: GA-X58A-UD3R rev. 2.0 Cold Boot Issues

Hi Again,

Right full reinstall and still getting the same problems.

I've discovered that if I switch the computer on, immediately hit delete to get into bios and leave the machine for about 10 minutes (go make a cup of tea and open the days post) and then boot the machine it works first time everytime with no errors or issues.

Any ideas on what might be causing it? The computer is in my studio which is separate from the hosue and can get a bit colder over night, especially at this time of year.

Is it likely to be happier booting once the power has circulated for a while? Does Ram or the CPU suffer from the slight chill?

Is it possible that I've got a motherboard I need to RMA as its got some weird quirk?